(British, historical) A fund, set up in the early 18th century, to financially assist the poor members of the clergy.
(British, historical) A fund, set up in the early 18th century, to financially assist the poor members of the clergy.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Scotland, historical) A bonus payment made by an employer to a servant.
(British) A special coinage given to the deserving poor in a religious ceremony performed by Anglicans on Maundy Thursday.
(UK, historical) and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty.
(UK, legal, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
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(informal, US, sports) The New Orleans Saints bounty scandal.